campus of 5000 students, one student returns from vacation with a contagious and long-lasting flu virus. The spread of the virus is modeled by , where y is the total number of students infected after t days. The ? = 5000/1+4999?^−0.8?,  ? ≥0 college will cancel classes when 40% or more of the students are infected. a.) How many students are infected after 5 days?

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On a college campus of 5000 students, one student returns from vacation with a
contagious and long-lasting flu virus. The spread of the virus is modeled by
, where y is the total number of students infected after t days. The ? = 5000/1+4999?^−0.8?,  ? ≥0
college will cancel classes when 40% or more of the students are infected.

a.) How many students are infected after 5 days?

B) After how many days will the college cancel classes? 

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